House on the Mango Street

Too many children

Rosa has too many children and it is not her fault. The children are so troublesome that after a while everyone is tired of caring about the children. They show no respect to living things, including themselves.

Sometimes the children play chicken on the rooftop. Sometimes kids bend the trees and dangle upside down on knees and bounce between cars. Sometimes the kids stuck their heads between bars. Sometimes they break their teeth. One time, one child learn to fly but fall from sky like a falling star, but he exploded down to earth without even a "Oh".

Alicia

Alicia's mother died and no body older in the house rise early to make the breakfast. So she takes over the task from her mother. And she is young and smart and study at university. She doesn't want spend the rest of his life in factory so she study all night and she can see the mice. She is my friend. She is afraid of nothing but the four-leg fur. But her father just says you just close your eyes and they just disappear or you imagine they disappear.